Jorge Vera-Cruz Barbosa (25 May 1902 – 6 January 1971) was a Cape Verde

Cape Verde

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an poet and writer

Writer

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. He collaborated in various review

Review

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s and Portuguese

Portugal

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 and Cape Verdean journals. The publication of his poetry anthology Arquipélago (Archipelago) in 1935 marked the beginning of Capeverdean poetry

Poetry

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. He was, along with Baltazar Lopes da Silva and Manuel Lopes

Manuel Lopes

Manuel António de Sousa Lopes was a Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist and a founder of modern Cape Verdean literature. With Baltasar Lopes da Silva and Jorge Barbosa he was a creator of the paper named Claridade...

 one of the three founders of the literary journal Claridade

Claridade

Claridade was a literary review inaugurated in 1936 in the city of Mindelo on the island of São Vicente, Cape Verde. It was part of a movement of cultural, social, and political emancipations of the Capeverdean society...

("Clarity") in 1936, which marked the beginning of modern Cape Verdean literature.

Biography

Jorge Barbosa was born in the city of Praia

Praia

Praia , is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde, an island nation in the Atlantic Ocean west of Senegal. It lies on the southern coast of Santiago island in the Sotavento Islands group. It is the island's ferry port and is home to one of the nation’s four international airports...

, on the island of Santiago

Santiago, Cape Verde

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, Cape Verde

Cape Verde

The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

 archipelago (then a territory of Portugal). Soon after, he moved to the island of São Vicente

São Vicente

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, where he spent his early years on — excluding his years of study in Lisbon

Lisbon

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. He then lived for many years on the island of Sal, working as a civil servant of the customhouse. He died in Cova da Piedade, in Lisbon, Portugal

Portugal

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.

Publications

• Arquipélago (1935)
• Ambiente (Ambient, also known as The Circle) (1941)
• Caderno de um Ilhéu (An Islander's Notebook) (1955, Camilo Pessanha
  Camilo Pessanha
  Camilo Pessanha was a Portuguese symbolist poet.-Early years:Camilo de Almeida Pessanha was born the illegitimate son of Francisco António de Almeida Pessanha, an aristocratic law student, and Maria do Espírito Santo Duarte Nunes Pereira, his housekeeper, on September 7, 1867, at 11.00 p.m., in Sé...
  
  Award)
• Recent poems include Meio Milénio, Júbilo (Jubilee) and Panfletário.